Tryon v. Miller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Upon a writ of error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, the case was as follow's. To September term, 1834, an action on the case was brought by George Tryon, Nathan Jones, John Alberger, Joseph B. Norbury, and Joseph Starne, against Daniel H. Miller, Lawrence Shuster, David Woelpper, and Jacob Frick, under the following circumstances : In the year 1822, Jacob G. Tryon was elected sheriff of the City and County of Philadelphia.
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Upon a writ of error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, the case was as follow's. To September term, 1834, an action on the case was brought by George Tryon, Nathan Jones, John Alberger, Joseph B. Norbury, and Joseph Starne, against Daniel H. Miller, Lawrence Shuster, David Woelpper, and Jacob Frick, under the following circumstances : In the year 1822, Jacob G. Tryon was elected sheriff of the City and County of Philadelphia. The plaintiffs became his sureties in the recognizance to the Commonwealth in the sum off60,000. The defendants, together with certain other…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
Two errors have been assigned, — First, that the District Court refused to permit the plaintiffs to read in evidence to the jury, on the trial of the cause, an offer made in writing and signed by them while the cause wras pending before arbitrators, and afterwards filed in the prothonotary’s office, with and attached to the award of the arbitrators; whereby they agreed that if an award should be made in their favour, the same and the judgment thereon to be rendered, should be l'eleased upon payment by the defendants of all that the…
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